Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Arthur Streeton (revisited)
Arthur Streeton was an Australian landscape artist active in the late 19th and early 20 centuries. Like the American Impressionists working at the same time, Streeton and other painters in Australia were influenced by the new approach to painting pioneered by the French Impressionists, but took the influence and went their own way, creating unique…
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Eye Candy for Today: Nathaniel Bacon's fruit and veggies
Cookmaid with Still Life of Vegetables and Fruit, Nathaniel Bacon On the Google Cultural Institute: Art Project; click in upper right of image for zoom controls. Original is in the Tate. Yummy.
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Sunny Apinchapong-Yang
Sunny Apinchapong-Yang was born in Thailand to Chinese parents, studied art in the U.S. at Art Center College of Design and California State University, LA; and later studied with the renowned Russian-American painter Sergei Bongart. He went on to become Bongart’s assistant at his L.A. school as well as at his summer workshops in Idaho.…
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Eye Candy for Today: Frederico Zuccaro drawing
Taddeo Drawing by Moonlight in Calabrese’s House, Frederico Zuccaro Pen and brown ink with wash, roughly 17×7 inches (43x18cm). Frederico Zuccaro’s drawing of his brother, Taddeo, drawing Rome and the Tiber by moonlight. I love the indication of additional drawings to the left and right, apparently on the outside of the shutters, or on paper…
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Eye Candy for Today: Henri Le Sidaner dusk scene
Small Table in Evening Dusk, Henri Le Sidaner On Google Art Project, also on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Ohara Museum of Art in Japan. See my post on Henri Le Sidaner.
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Koo Schadler
Koo Schadler is a contemporary artist who favors techniques that were common in Medieval and early Renaissance art, but are not in wide use today, notably egg tempera painting and silverpoint drawing. Though both mediums have their modern adherents, they are demanding in a way that many artists do not find appealing. Schadler, however, is…